Button.



E. SHANTZ.

BUTTON.

APPLICATION FILED DEC. 5, 1910.

WITNESSES: INVENTOR ATTORNEYS qzw EDGAR SHANTZ, O13 ROCHESTER, NEW YORK.

BUTTON.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Sept. 15, 1914.

Application filed. December 5, 1910. Serial No. 595,595.

To all whom it ma concern:

Be it known t at I, EDGAR SHANTZ, of Rochester, in the county of Monroeand State of New York, have invented a certain new and useful Button, ofwhich the following is a specification.

My invention relates to buttons having fragile heads, and shankscomposed of strong material, and has for its object the production ofsuch a button, which is particularly adapted for use with certainstandard machines for securing buttons to articles.

In describing this invention, reference is had to the accompanyingdrawing which is the sectional view of the button.

Buttons having heads formed of pearl, vegetable ivory, or like fragilesubstances, are usually provided with metallic shanks. In themanufacture of such buttons, the shanks have heretofore been secured tothe heads by expansion of the metal forming the shanks. To those skilledin the art, it is well known that when button-heads and shanks areunited together, as described, a large percentage of the heads isdestroyed by breakage, even though slight expanding strain is used, andthe shanks are but insecurely fastened to the heads, and frequentlybecome detached therefrom, especially when in use and subjected tostrain, thus rendering the buttons objectionable, and tending todecrease the use thereof.

In my Patent N 0. 870,907, issued Nov. 12, 1907, I have disclosed abutton having a head of pearl, vegetable ivory, or other fragilematerial, and a shank, cast within the button-head.

My present button comprises a buttonhead or blank and a shank includinga base cast within the button-head and an eye secured to the base. Thebutton-head 1 is formed of pearl, vegetable ivory or other fragilematerial, and has a socket 2 in its rear face and preferably increasinginwardly in size. The base 3 is cast in the socket 2, and the eye 4 hasa portion embedded in the base. Usually said eye consists of a loophaving its ends 5 extending into the socket, and the base is cast in thesocket about the ends of the loop.

A button constructed as described is provided with an ornamental headand with a strong means of attachment to the article upon which thebutton is to be used, and is particularly useful as a shoe-button.

What I claim is:

A button having a head of fragile material and a rigid wire eyeextending from the rear side of the head, said button comprising a onepiece blank of a non-moldable fragile substance provided with anundercut recess opening out through the rear face of the blank, thefront face of the blank being imperforate, a wire bent to form a loopand having its ends extending into the recess and moldable material castin said recess through the opening in the rear face of the blank, andextending about the ends of the wire and filling the recess, whereby theends of the loop are rigidly connected to the fragile blank,substantially as and for the purpose described.

In testimony whereof, I have hereunto signed my name in the presence oftwo attesting witnesses, at Rochester, in the county of Monroe, in theState of New York, this 28th day of November, 1910.

EDGAR SHANTZ.

Witnesses:

H. M. RAMsAY, B. T. PAPPERT.

Copies of this patent may be obtained for five cents each, by addressingthe Commissioner of Patents.

Washington, D. C.

